Queries:
Do you put yourself in others? shoes and try to understand their experiences?
Do we reach out to persons in need?
Quotes
“My religion is kindness.”The Dalai Lama
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view
until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
”If you do not care for each other, who will care for you?”
”The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?”Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”Emily Dickinson
“We have to continue to practice mindfulness and reconciliation until we can see a child’s body of skin and bones in Uganda or Ethiopia as our own, until the hunger and pain in the bodies of all [people] are our own. [Then] we can do the real work to help alleviate suffering.”Thich Nhat Hanh